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Monday, January 09, 2006

Scalito - Still A Puny Lil Asshole

Digby has the takedown on Scalito's opening statement in which Scalito takes a not-to-subtle dump on Feminists, Vietnam era war protesters, civil rights ptrotesters, etc.

Scalito said:

And after I graduated from high school, I went a full 12 miles down the road, but really to a different world when I entered Princeton University. A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by the time I graduated from high school, things had changed.

And this was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas. But this was back in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

It was a time of turmoil at colleges and universities. And I saw some very smart people and very privileged people behaving irresponsibly. And I couldn't help making a contrast between some of the worst of what I saw on the campus and the good sense and the decency of the people back in my own community.


Digby responds:

This is the same guy who wanted to keep women out of Princeton. Presumably, they wouldn't have "felt comfortable" there. But that's not what made that statement so revealing. It's this notion of smart and privileged people "behaving irresponsibly."

I think it's fairly certain that he's not talking about branding frat boys' asses or getting drunk and stealing Christmas Trees. He's talking about anti-war protestors, feminists etc. And like so many campus conservatives of that era, he sounds like he's still carrying around a boatload of resentment toward them.

Roberts apparently came out of all that unscathed. Confident in his own abilities and social prowess, he didn't appear to have this puny, pinched view of liberalism as a threat to decency and morality. (He may have it, but it didn't show --- or he was smart enough to hide it in his hearings.) Alito is one of those other guys.

... he's a freeper. I say filibuster the creep.

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  • That is b.s. that he wanted to keep women and minorities out of P. he had little or no involvement in that Organization and what limited involvement he had was motivated by his stand on the ROTC. Well, you may not agree with his stand on the ROTC, but don't, as I said before, do this knee jerk response shit, and accept as gospel any statement that supports your obviously biased views. Rolly

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